The last surviving United States World War I veteran, Frank Buckles, testified in the Senate at on S. 2097, a bill to authorize re-dedication of the District of Columbia War Memorial as a National and District of Columbia World War I Memorial.The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks held the hearing on S. 2097, the Frank Buckles World War I Memorial Act on Dec. 3, 2009.

A benefit reception to support the Memorial will be hosted by the World War I Memorial Foundation on Monday, November 9, 2009, at the Woodrow Wilson House in Washington, D.C. A donation of $150 is suggested. Speakers will include former Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) and distinguished architects Hugh Newell Jacobson, FAIA, and Arthur Cotton Moore, FAIA.The event will feature an exhibit of photographs of

America’s last surviving World War I veteran, 108-year-old Frank Buckles, was presented with a $1350 check for the World War I Memorial Foundation on Saturday, September 5, 2009, at his farm in Charles Town, West Virginia. Buckles is the honorary chairman of the foundation. Justin Rojek, head of a Montgomery, Ala., Sons of the American Revolution chapter, traveled to Buckles’s Gap View

The Fox News national TV network ran a report over the Fourth of July weekend on the need for a national World War I Memorial. The report featured interviews with Frank Buckles and with Edwin Fountain, one of the directors of the Foundation.As a reminder, we have begun an on-line petition asking Congress to re-dedicate the District of Columbia War Memorial as a national memorial. If you haven't done

Over Memorial Day weekend, ABC World News named Frank Buckles as its "Person of the Week." ABC profiled Mr. Buckles' remarkable life, and cited his call for a national World War I memorial. On CNN, Anderson Cooper's AC360 blog (Read Forgotten vets: ‘Doughboys’ deserve honor too) also discussed the need for a national World War I memorial on the Mall in Washington.Watch the ABC World News